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Mistrial Declared in Prostitution Case

Los Angeles Times - August 1, 2002
Times Staff Reports


An impasse was declared Wednesday in the prostitution trial of a woman who is HIV-positive after the Superior Court jury reported that it was deadlocked.

Judge Arthur M. Lew dismissed the panel and set Aug. 7 as a pretrial hearing date for Panchita Hall, who will be retried under a 1988 state law that requires convicted prostitutes who have been informed that they are HIV-positive to be charged with a felony upon their next arrest.


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